From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 3 4:41:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from w3.brgkepler.asn-graz.ac.at (unknown [193.171.5.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 950AE37B4C5 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 04:41:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from w3.brgkepler.asn-graz.ac.at (sperber@L0824P24.dipool.highway.telekom.at [62.46.166.248]) by w3.brgkepler.asn-graz.ac.at (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA24983; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 12:31:11 +0100 Message-ID: <3A02C067.9C5431D7@w3.brgkepler.asn-graz.ac.at> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 13:40:55 +0000 From: Sperber X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: satkal79@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tar files References: <20001103121706.20733.qmail@web10703.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi The command should be tar xf if it's a .tar.gz or .tgz tar zxf (-> man tar should help) pkg_add is only for packages (extension: .tgz) - but not all .tgz are fbsd packages... Sperber satkal79@yahoo.com wrote: > Hi, > > I am a novice in freebsd.... I tried installing using > the command pkg_add for the tar extension file of > Kdeveloper... but there was error...saying.. > > "tar: +CONTENTS not found in archive > pkg_add: unable to open table of contents file > '+CONTENTS' - not a package? " > > Anyone can tell me what went wrong? Do help > me.....pls. > > Kalai > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > >From homework help to love advice, Yahoo! Experts has your answer. > http://experts.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message